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Chapter 853
The Internet market these days, although it looks a bit outrageous, one balloon is bigger than the other, but in fact there are still many good companies, at least Fortinet is more reliable than those empty-handed white wolves. many!
Internet antivirus will become a rigid demand in the future. Many people may feel that it’s okay if mobile phones and computers don’t install antivirus software, but have you ever thought about a possibility that you don’t need to install it? The manufacturers of mobile phones have already When shipped from the factory, anti-virus software is installed...

Regardless of whether you use it or not, the antivirus software market is there. Even if you don't use it, it is still useful to use it to clear memory garbage.

In the future, all mobile phones equipped with the Symbian system, as well as Apple computers, will use Fortinet anti-virus without accident, and even the built-in factory, which cannot be deleted!
As long as there are users of the Symbian system and the Apple system, the user scale of Fortinet can be guaranteed. Even if Fortinet does not charge for anti-virus, the advertising revenue is also guaranteed.

The most important thing that can support the market value of Feita's nearly 80 billion dollars is that from last year to this year, the TV boxes developed by Feita have sold nearly 400 million sets, and the revenue has exceeded [-] million dollars!

A large part of the $80 billion valuation is for Fortinet TV boxes. Wall Street investment banks don't know whether the anti-virus software will make money, but the market for TV boxes seems to be very lucrative.

Think about how big the TV stock market is in the world now. In America alone, almost every family has one or even several TV stations. There are also markets in North America, Europe, Asia, etc., but the TV is matched with the TV. Boxes have become the consensus of mainstream society, so how many TV set-top boxes can be sold every year?
In the future, the TV box market may even become a market of more than 50 billion US dollars a year. If Fortinet can win one-third of this market, it will have an annual revenue of [-] billion US dollars!
In addition, Fortinet's TV box and other competitors have advantages that it does not have. Behind it is ICNC TV, NBC Group, Western Pictures, and Universal Pictures. You don't need to worry about content and copyright, you can Selling TV boxes in a fair and honest way, unlike other TV boxes that play around the corner, I'm afraid they will be sued by Hollywood companies!
Those who are optimistic about Fortinet are mostly Wall Street institutions. Leeks are not very interested in anti-virus software that is in the ranks of the Internet, because too few people pay attention.

Song Yang listened to Xie Qing's report. For Song Yang, Nasdaq was no stranger to him. Even ICQ had become a constituent stock of the Nasdaq index. But for Xie Qing, this was the first time , Naturally quite excited and nervous.

"The North American Global Investment Foundation will cooperate with Fortinet to complete the listing, and Marcus will help you here."

Song Yang confessed to Xie Qing, then hesitated, and said to Xie Qing, "Xie Qing, you have been busy since you came to America, and you have been in San Jose for the past few years. Maybe you can take a break after Feita goes public. Take it easy!"

In Uncle Liu Huang's words, Xie Qing has been fighting for so many years, seeing that the flying tower is about to go on the market, why can't he enjoy his life, luxury cars, villas, private yachts and so on, shouldn't he be arranged.

Xie Qing couldn't help being stunned for a moment when he heard Song Yang's words. When he first heard it, he felt nervous for a while, thinking that Song Yang had some idea to let him leave the Feita. It's not uncommon to drive away...

But after thinking about it, Song Yang is the major shareholder of Feita. If you want him to leave Feita, you don’t need to go through such troubles. You can kick him out directly with the board of directors. Xie Qing is sure that Feita’s board of directors and management On the lower level, no one dared to oppose Song Yang, even the second general Heng Ha, the other two founders of Feita, probably wouldn't dare to confront Song Yang openly!
After Song Yang mentioned a sentence, he stopped talking. Asking Xie Qing to take a vacation after the listing of Feita is to let him sell part of the equity before listing, or pledge the equity to cash out after listing. Come out with a large sum of beautiful knives, and return to the flying tower after the turmoil has passed.

As for Xie Qing, whether he would listen to him or not, and how much he could listen to, was out of Song Yang's control. It was the utmost benevolence for Song Yang to remind him of this.

If you don't cash out, then the 80 billion market value of Feita will be half of the market value in the end. It is estimated that it will be burned. Xie Qing's worth of more than one billion US dollars is basically wiped out. Now that he is cashing out, he will be scolded for sure. , but Feita's stock price does not fall, and it has nothing to do with Xie Qing's worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as his mansion, sports car, private jet, yacht and so on!

Hearing Song Yang's hint to Xie Qing, Omidyar on the side was still a little confused, and was a little puzzled by the twists and turns, but Whitman on the side understood it, knowing that Song Yang asked Xie Qing to give it to him. Run away early.

Now, Whitman suddenly vaguely understood why Song Yang knew that even though the Internet market was somewhat unstable, he still agreed with companies such as eBay, Fortinet, Yeadex, and Sohu to go public.

If the Internet market really changes dramatically, then this listing will allow the founders and management of these companies, including Whitman, to earn a fortune and prevent them from doing nothing for nothing...

With a pensive expression, Xie Qing left Song Yang's San Jose villa and returned to Feita's office.

Seeing Song Yang this time, Feita has the support of Song Yang, so there is no need to worry about problems in the listing. On the first day of listing, if the stock price of Feita falls, the North American Global Investment Foundation will also hold down the stock price of Feita and prevent it from falling. Breaking the issue price has become a joke in the industry.

But what Song Yang said to him at the end made Xie Qing happy, but at the same time worried, Xie Qing couldn't help being a little entangled in not knowing what Song Yang said to him.

After Xie Qing, Whitman also said to Song Yang, "ebay will complete the listing before the end of June this year, and is currently raising funds. It is expected to raise 6 billion US dollars and complete the listing with a valuation of about 15 billion US dollars!"

Hearing that ebay lions opened their mouths, they wanted to raise 15 billion US dollars, nearly [-] times the financing of Amazon, which was listed before!
Before Amazon went public, the financing was only $8000 million, and the valuation at the time of listing was no more than $5000 million. At that time, several investment banks that underwrote Amazon shares felt that Amazon was a bit expensive, and they were reluctant to sell shares for Amazon. , the handling fee is also quite high.

But who would have thought that by the time eBay went public, the market would have completely changed, and the frenzy of the Internet had completely arrived. Institutions, as well as large and small investors, do not feel that eBay is expensive.

Because Amazon's current market value is approaching tens of billions of dollars, but its user scale, revenue, and profits are completely inferior to eBay, and eBay is now the leader in the global e-commerce industry!

Amazon’s market value is tens of billions of dollars. It has more users and higher revenue than it. Amazon is still losing money. Ebay earned 4000 million dollars last year. How do you think that ebay is not worth more than Amazon? !
Regardless of what happens in the future, anyway, now eBay is the "white moonlight" in the minds of major Wall Street institutions and investors. Going there, Amazon will be a proper supporting role. As for eBay, will it become Mrs. Niu in the future, then... ... I don't know.

After listening to Whitman's words, Song Yang took a look at Omidyar. The latter was very discerning, and went to find Gallo who had just arrived at the villa to make barbecue.

Whitman, Irene, Ertian, Marcus and others are all Song Yang's absolute confidantes. They are in charge of those industries for Song Yang. Of course, correspondingly, they have also gained huge power.

Facing Whitman and others, Song Yang didn't need to hide anything, "North American Global Investment Foundation, Bruno Family Foundation, etc. will transfer part of eBay's equity before eBay's listing. In the future, eBay's equity will not be completely sold Lose, but not keep more than 40%!"

Whitman took a deep breath, looked at Song Yang and asked, "Song, you are not optimistic about eBay or the Internet, the future market?!"

Song Yang shook his head. Some things cannot be said no matter what, even if they have already been done, "I said that I will not leave the Internet industry, but sometimes it is necessary to avoid some possible risks. In other words, this is called emergency avoidance, and there is a proverb in the East, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall!"

(End of this chapter)